disorient
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Air defenses’ large-scale use of spoofing, or transmitting fake GPS signals to send drones off course, can disorient civilian air traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He uses overhead shots and camera angles and plays with focus to displace or disorient viewers.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
Activists have been calling on buildings to turn off bright lights, which can disorient birds.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2023
She’s not afraid to disorient an audience — or to disgust them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
Here on earth, orienting yourself depends on the feeling you get from the pull of gravity, plus your vision. just being blindfolded is enough to disorient some people.
From The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe
Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
No work of Lek’s, however, disorients quite like “Refuge,” a three-panel painting completed in 2023 that extends to a width of 12 feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
But the more likely problem is that social media presents a feed or timeline of content that disorients its consumers and unmoors them from reality.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2020
The best historical fiction disorients us by demonstrating the uncanny nature of the past — a world like and not like ours, woven through with strands of ancient DNA.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2020
The beauty disorients many of the players, because when the gong sounds, most of them seem like they’re trying to wake from a dream.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Just when he’s got you disoriented and distracted, he strikes, boring you to death.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
"If someone stops sweating, becomes disoriented or collapses, it can quickly become a medical emergency."
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
“This case involves an elderly man who was disoriented and living with dementia, conditions that made him particularly vulnerable,” Los Angeles County Dist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
“I was disoriented at first. It’s hard to step out of that go-go mentality.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
The more I thought about it, the more disoriented and provoked I became.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
There is something genuinely disorienting about reading all of this in a Senate oversight letter and arriving at Taco Bell as the comparatively lucid party.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Travel, she says, “was exciting, exhausting, anxiety-producing, disorienting, stimulating, joyful and difficult to explain to others.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
It’s all so thrilling, so disorienting, so terrifying.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
Being displaced from your home is inconvenient and disorienting.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
Entering the Distracted Globe was more than a little disorienting.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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